. . "In any event: in honour of LM???s self-deprecating (and, often, just plain deprecating??? ;-P) sense of irony, I???ll write something on the preface to the Phenomenology today ??? and queue the post to appear at the stroke of midnight, Melbourne time??? My post, I should flag, will likely be rather bad: there is a reason I had originally not intended to write on Phenomenology until late January???" . .